Inside a lonesome hut ,deep inside the great forest of Eragor,a white haired youth was sitting crosslegged on a torn futon made of cotton and leaves.
The youths eye lids were closed,but subtle movements could be seen in his eyeballs,albeit faintly.
The youth was naturally, Kain.
Slowly and gently the youth opened his eyes and spoke in a hushed tone.
"Initiate Syncronization"
As soon as he spoke those words,white maggots started appearing on his skin,crawling and wriggling on his entire body.
One could see every single muscle fibre of his body was being torn and ripped off.
His hair shriveled up and fell down on the futon.
His eyelashes,his eyelids, his pubic hair,all fell down and disintegrated into dirt.
His eyeballs pooped out and fell on the floor along with his entire muscle mass of his body.
His intestines spilled out of his body and his lungs drooped down but even so his skeletal structure sat straight with his vertebral column.
Painfull and agonizing screams filled the outer half of the Eragor forest.
The last thing that was left of was his internal organs and his pure white skeleton but even they went through a transformation.
The maggots crawling on him had actually eaten all of his body.
But it wasn't insensitive enough to leave its host,just like that.
The maggots then stuck to his bones and started transforming his pure white skeleton in a blackish one.
His internal organs then again started forming albeit black ones.
His skin started regenerating at a fast pace and all the sinuses present in him got filled with a dark reddish liquid, for blood.
After the process was finished,all that was left of was the same Kain,albeit with a peacefull expression on his face.
He was completely naked from top to bottom and his entire skin was covered with dark skin.
After a couple of hours subtle movements could be seen form Kain as all the blackish skin was slowly craked and shed off.
Kain then slowly stood up from the futon which was completely filled with dried blood and opened his purple eyes.
He again started limping towards the rainwater filled bucket and looked at himself.
This time,his appearance could only be expressed as unholy and vile.
His white hair was repleaced by black wire like extensions and his beautiful face he was so proud of was, half mechanized with a red eyeball in contrast to his normal looking purple eyeball.
His left and right limbs were replaced by mechanized one with skin like synthetic screws and bolts fitted in them.
In short he had mechanized body parts but we're skin coloured.
He looked at his appearance and contemplated and said.
"I need to do something about my hair and face as it is bound to cause problems for me."
"Its not after the Great War between the The Entire Martial world and the Cyber world ,do these things as prosthetics become common "
"Untill the i need to hide them."
"Now lets check my Status and then....I'll do the need full "
"Status"
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[Status]
Name: Kain(Tier 1)
Age:UnDéFinEd
Race:Techno-High Human
Class:-----------
Affinity:AETHER
Strength:D
Stamina:D
Agility:F
Dexterity:D
Inteligence:B
Charm:F
Mana capacity:[°°Sealed°°]
Constitution:B[Fixed]
Spirit realm:Adult soul stage(Early)
Skills: Steal(lvl 1),Hawkeye(Lvl 4), Dagger arts(Lvl 5),Skinning(Lvl 5),Subspace .
Weapons:
Nanobot(5 Variables)
[End]
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Looking at his status, Kain looked relieved as he was glad he was cured of his yin poisoning which had tormented him in his previous timeline.
He could cultivate now!
He then looked at his mechanized hand and flexed his synthetic muscles and felt his increased D ranked strength which was painfully low , even for an adult.
Even his intelligence was increased along with his Dextrity which meant faster processing speed and an improvement in comprehensive ability,both essential for a cultivator.
These things were very essential for a Martial artist to cultivate and being the dumbass he was in his previous time line.....he had a terrifyingly low amount.
But all this came at the expense of his decreased agility which was due to the weight of his new enhanced bones with high density and mechanized body parts.
But it was fixable for the most part as just as people progressed their cultivation,their body weight naturally increased to possess the explosive strength in their bodies.
Kain just had to naturally start with a heavier one at first which did increase the amount of hard work he needed to do while cultivating,but he would definately reap its benefits as he rose higher in his Cultivation.
A small price to pay for the future!!
Now most of the people on this world had the access to the cosmic or heaven and earth energy which nourished their bodies but Kain,being the cripple he was,was deprived of such.
For a Martial artist of 13 years of age ,their strength started form an average estimate of C to D rank after they started cultivating,according to Kains rough assumption.
So Kain was on a similar level of a Second stage Disciple,which only gave him an edge over an average martial artist.
But he was glad he didn't need to fear the average demon beast or human as most of them lacked resources to cultivate and only a handful of demon beasts had the apptitude and intelligence to cultivate.
It was 1 in a million actually!
Coming out of his stupor,Kain now decided to analyse his situation.
During all this time he was on the edge and was looking after every single movement outside his hut with his meager perception.
Only after completing the procedure to change the body ,under the meager protection of his hut,did he activate his trail of thoughts.
He sat down on the muddy floor,beside his blood stained bed and leaned on the bamboo poles supporting his makeshift hut and contemplated as he thought.
'Its been so many years....800 of them....after so many of the years of suffering and agony...did i become free....and at what price.'
He looked at his mechanized hand with which he touched his face and plucked his eyeball of his socket.
Smiling with a sad smile he said looking at the eyeball with his other eye.
'This....this fucking .....
He crushed the eyeball immediately as his anger rose for the peak.
Instantly ,another new eyeball formed by whitish maggots ,formed on his other eye socket,adjusting themselves.
Kain sighed helplessly.
He had returned to the past ....or to be exact ,he had sent back some of his memories back to he past.
After going through the torture in the Crimson Blood sect,all he wanted was to die but even that was halted due to his mind being controlled.
But after regaining his sanity,400 years after his surgery,he had tried ending his life but...but...
'Ughh...what happened.
He closed his eyes and saw blurry images of a woman smiling happily with half mechanized face.
Kain grunted as the headache assaulted his brain again.
Halting his throughts ,he realised that he wasn't able to send all his memories to the past and most of them were fragmented ones.
The only thing he knew was that the world he lived in was going to be destroyed or to be exact eaten up by the Demon God of Gluttony.
He realised that he must have died in the future and that woman he saw might have something to do with his regression.
But the question was how did he know all this?...
What was regression?
What were the nanobots?
The previous Kain had no clue but this time the Kian of the future had one ,albeit faintly.
And the answer to that question was located in his so called nanobots.
Kain then furrowed his mechanized eyebrows and called forth his golden black status window and focused on his nanobots.
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[Weapons:]
Nanobot(5 Variables)
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Mentally focussing on the Variables section of the Nanobots,he saw new options appearing infront of him.
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⭐Variable 1:Memory Beads-Depicts the exact memory of the victim killed
Current beads:1(Cassian Stone)
⭐Variable 2[Sealed-Tier 2]:Possession:Projects the consciousness of the host onto another for a range of 50m.
Current possessions:None(0/1)
⭐Variable 3[Sealed-Tier 4]
⭐Variable 4[Sealed-Tier 8]
⭐Variable 5[Sealed-Tier ??]
[End]
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He then looked at the name Cassian Stone with mixed feelings,which for some reason ,was much more profound and deep.
After his regression,he realised that his potential to feel and connect with humans was lost,not that he needed them anyways.
Maybe it was the price for sending his memories in the past but.... whatever.
This name 'Cassian Stone' gave him a certain sense of kinship which no other human gave him,not even his so called 'dead sister' who genuinely loved and adored him.
Over the years of constant torture and struggle against the program fitted in his brain to completely take over his sanity and body.
He realised that there was a reason he had Yin poisoning.
He realised that his soul was damaged or to be exact ,in hibernation state, as the yin attribute was closely related with ice.
So technically his soul was half in hibernation and the other half was functioning in the material world.
Which meant....he was Kain and was not at the same time!!
There was another Kain,deep inside his sea of consciousness, deliberately sealed.
Who did that and for what reason ,he didn't know of and didn't want to know.
All he wanted in this life was to reveal the truth of the death of his sister and defeat the Demon God.
He didn't have the slightest amount of kinship towards the hypocritical humans of this world but as a species of ants needed the opportunity to survive ,humans also needed one ,no matter how evil they were.
The only honourable race were the demon beasts of the wild,as they were said to be loyal and a straight forward race.
Those were the only people,although in minority,he was willing to save,but other than those ,he only cared about himself.
It was a world of killing and no mercy!
The strong lives and poor dies....that was the rule of this game of life.
And he didn't want to change the rules of the game or complain about it.
He just wanted to live a better life and win so...,might as well play this hypocritical game.
Halting his thoughts he concentrated on the so called name called 'Cassian stone' and metally called forth a red coloured bead in his hands.
Putting the bead in his mouth ,he gulped down it down in one go ,and closed his eyes.
The person he was now going to live through the memories of,was someone special.
Someone courageous...
Some one who rejected the flaws of his world.
Some who was a just and kind person in the literal sense.
That same person had literally saved Kain from ending his life 400 years later.
Now it's time to give him his body back.
He was the other half of Kain or the so called
Cassian Stone.
His other half was ...
A 40 year old Salary man?
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